[Talk-us] GNIS Import Done

[Minh Nguyen]

Ngày 3/12/09 8:47 AM, Ian Dees vie^'t:
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Ted Mielczarek 
> <ted.mielczarek at gmail.com <mailto:ted.mielczarek at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Yeah, I deleted quite a few POIs for things that no longer exist.
>     Sorry if I sounded mad in my message. :) I still question the
>     value of this data given my (brief, informal) survey of what it
>     brought to my local area. I think I may have also deleted a few
>     nodes where I had already mapped the feature. I can go back and
>     transfer the GNIS tags to the existing feature if you think that
>     would be helpful.
>
>
>  It would be helpful to have the GNIS feature_id on existing data if 
> it's talking about the same thing.
>
> There are lots of nodes where the name has "(historic)" or similar at 
> the end, which means that the feature no longer exists but is recorded 
> for historical purposes. I thought I had deleted those from the data 
> before import, but it looks like most of them got imported. I was 
> planning on searching for those IDs and deleting them when I scrape 
> through the planet dump next week.
How about tagging their names as old_name? I don't think any renderer 
currently supports that key, but it could be useful in the future.

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